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The John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance of the Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics at the University of Delaware will host a Corporate Governance Symposium March 17, 2015. The focus of the symposium will be on Critical Issues for Boards and Institutional Investors in 2015. The symposium will feature up to four academic papers on corporate governance and a panel discussion featuring speakers from the Delaware judiciary and the academic, business and legal communities.

To submit a paper, send a PDF version to Louisa Cresson at weinberg-corp-gov@udel.edu by November 24, 2014.

The Center for Law, Economics & Finance (C-LEAF) at The George Washington University Law School is seeking submissions for its fifth annual Junior Faculty Business and Financial Law Workshop and Junior Faculty Scholarship Prizes. The Workshop will be held on February 27-28, 2015 at GW Law School in Washington, DC.

To submit a paper for consideration, send an abstract, summary or draft preferably by e-mail, on or before October 17, 2014 to Professor Lisa M. Fairfax at lfairfax@law.gwu.edu. To facilitate blind review, your name and other identifying information should be redacted from your paper submission. For more information, go here.

Topics: Calls for Papers; Business Law; Law & Economics; Securities Law

The Editorial Board of The Business Lawyer is soliciting submission of articles and essays for Volume 70. The Business Lawyer is the flagship scholarly journal of the American Bar Association Section of Business Law, reaching 40,000 readers on a quarterly basis. Authors must submit exclusively to the journal and submissions are peer-reviewed. Authors are generally given a response in about two weeks.

Articles should be submitted to Diane Babal, Production Manager, at diane.babal@americanbar.org. Questions about submissions can be addressed to Associate Editor-in-Chief, Professor Gregory Duhl, at gregory.duhl@wmitchell.edu.

The New York Law School Law Review is announcing a call for papers to be published in connection with the April 25, 2014 symposium, “Combating Threats to the International Financial System: The Financial Action Task Force.” In addition to addressing the Financial Action Task Force, the Law Review will broadly examine contemporary threats to the international financial system, and how those threats have been responded to in the past, as well as how they should be responded to in the future. For more information on the symposium and details on submissions please go here.

Topics: Calls for Papers; Conferences and Symposia; Business Law; International Law; Consumer & Financial Services Law

Join the Business Law Section at the 2013 ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco to discuss the need for “practice ready” graduates out of law school and implement a plan to teach young lawyers how to practice. If you are interested in helping the Business Education Committee with these projects, even if only to share an idea, please join us at our Committee Meeting at 10:00am local time on Sunday, August 11th at the Annual Meeting in San Francisco. The meeting will be held at the San Francisco Fairmont Hotel at a location to be specified in the Annual Meeting registration materials. If you are unable to attend in person, we encourage you to participate by telephone and will circulate the dial-in number for our Committee Meeting promptly after it has been assigned. If you cannot participate in this meeting but would like to be involved, please email either Katherine Koops at Katerine.koops@bryancave.com or Karl Okamoto at ko54@drexel.edu.

The AALS Section on Financial Institutions & Consumer Financial Services and Section on European Law are sponsoring a Call for Papers for their joint program on Friday, January 3, at the AALS 2014 Annual Meeting in New York, New York. The topic of the program and call for papers is “Taking Stock of Post-Crisis Reforms: Local, Global, and Comparative Perspectives on Financial Sector Regulation.” To be considered, papers must be submitted electronically to Saule Omarova at omarova@email.unc.edu and Peter Lindseth at peter.lindseth@law.uconn.edu. The deadline for submission is September 3, 2013. Full-time faculty members of AALS member law schools are eligible to submit papers. For more information, go here.

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